Kia Kaha

Are there any restrictions on sales of TRD parts to owners eg body kits, engine parts

if you own a TRD?

The reason I ask is because I own a TRD Aurion and am happy to help others aquire some parts, provided it doesn't affect my purchases in the future. So what I'm trying to say is, is there a limit on how many body kits I could buy for example (if I get a couple of kits for other members and then have an accident and need one) would they still sell me another kit or would they have a limit?

Here's the torrent link if anyone wants it

http://scene.superfundo.org/p/scene/Mega.S...FW.torrent.html

I will be watching this thread. Very interested in who actually has 0001 and what number this one is.

Sorry to offend but the 0001 in the pic looks like a bit of photoshop to me.

Spotted a red Aurion in Moorebank turning left from Stockton ave onto Newbridge rd with black rims and red wall tyres or red on the rim. Looked pretty nice.

Anyone here?

I was just looking around on car sales and came across this Aurion with decals all over it. I like it, but I think a few people would wanna race you in it.

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/demo/d...0&silo=1011

It would be awesome if all members posted their twin setups.

Like this?

Renault & Ford are working together to build a small car

They are using the Renault Clio & the Ford Taurus as a basis for the new zippy little car . . . The Clitaurus

The car comes in pink, with fur on the dash.

Models assembled in Brazil will not offer the fur option

This is something we use on another forum I am on.

It is basically just a business card with website details on it, and we place it under a wiper on a car we have spotted.

Maybe someone could create something similar and post the file on here so people can download and print at home.

Just an idea.

who paid for these?

moderators? members? how did they come about?

I think it was a fund raiser cruise, not 100% sure on the details. But as I said, maybe someone can create something similar and share it online for us to print at work or home.

This is something we use on another forum I am on.

It is basically just a business card with website details on it, and we place it under a wiper on a car we have spotted.

Maybe someone could create something similar and post the file on here so people can download and print at home.

Just an idea.

This looks absolutley awesome, shame it costs a S**t load more. But with the power and handeling this thing has it would have to be one of most competitive performance cars out there.

The Mitsubishi FQ-400 Evolution is a Lancer that will out-accelerate exotic super cars.

It has a two-litre engine giving more power than a Falcon XR8 or a Commodore SS. And with a sophisticated all-wheel-drive system for extreme cornering grip.

It's the FQ-400, billed as "the most powerful, accelerative Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X".

It's hitting the roads in Britain this month. There, the home of many motorsport constructors, they have a respected network of car tuners who take fast production cars and make them even quicker.

The Mitsubishi Evo and its rival, the Subaru WRX, each get various versions of hot-up kits from a number of hot shops in Britain.

This Lancer Evo FQ-400 is the product of WRC Developments, with a nod from Mitsubishi's British importer. The model gets its name from the 403hp (300kW of power) produced - an incredible output from the two-litre, four-cylinder, turbocharged engine. And in a road car.

The engine gets motorsport-spec high-flow fuel injectors and a new turbocharger with low-friction bearings and reduced turbo lag. It's fed by an upgraded intercooler. Exhaust gases are sent via a 75mm diameter stainless steel pipe.

Five-hundred hours of development went into remapping its ECU.

The regular Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X on sale in Australia is no slouch: 217kW power at 6500rpm and 366Nm torque at 3500rpm.

The FQ-400 offers 300kW at 6500rpm and a big 525Nm torque at 3500rpm. (A six-litre Commodore SS V8 gives 270kW and the Falcon XR8, 290kW). Mitsubishi and WRC Development say the FQ-400 is good for a zero to 100km/h sprint in 3.8 seconds. It's governed to 250km/h.

It has a wider track than standard and is lowered 30mm, wearing Eibach springs and Bilstein shock absorbers, as well as an upgraded brake system using aerospace-grade aluminium.

The FQ-400 is picked over the normal Evo X by a heavily vented bonnet for engine heat to escape, carbon-fibre elements in the grille edging, composite side skirts, restyled rear bumper with carbon-fibre diffuser, rear wing with Gurney strip and a "vortex generator" on the roof trailing edge.

Inside are Recaro seats, seven airbags (it gets a five-star Euro NCAP rating for occupant protection in a crash), sat-nav and 30GB hard-drive on the sound system.

The FQ-400 sells for a tad over $A100,000 in Britain where the regular Evo X costs from around $60,000 (similar to its Australian price).

Sounds like a plan of attack. Let me know how you go.

You could even go as far as 'ricing' it up, with maybe a screen printed or stitched logo on the cover eg Toyota, logo, plates etc.

Okay, now to me this thread feels a little pointless, but nevertheless, I wouldn't mind some suggestions or new ideas.

Now I have a ported subwoofer and it can push quite a bit of air (with the ski hatch open you can still feel air 'blowing' through the tiny holes where the child restraints are). As a result, this causes quite a few rattles here an there, mostly all isolated to the parcel shelf.

So I got bored all of a sudden and felt like pulling out my parcel shelf to remove the 2.5kg of sound deadener I put in there which only marginally reduced some rattles.

While it was out (as per photo below), I decided to try and put my music up loud to see if I could find any more rattles. To my surprise, I could put it up even louder than before, and not get a single rattle inside now. It even seemed to have a bit more kick than before. So it appears to me that the rattle was isolated to mainly the plastic parcel shelf itself, and maybe way way it all joined up.

This is where I got my next idea from. Since I don't want to Dynamat anything (I want no more extra weight), I was thinking of what way I could go about fixing the parcel shelf. I thought maybe making a new one out of MDF, but I don't know if that's really going to solve my problem, and it will probably add weight. I was thinking about maybe even removing it all together and putting something else at the back like a carpet material or similar. It's not like I need a solid parcel shelf there as nothing goes up the back. Another thing I was thinking of is maybe stretching a speaker cloth like material over the back somehow so that everything underneath is all hidden. The problem then comes of how I would attach that, especially to the area under the window.

Any idea on what alternatives that I can do, or maybe any part experience. No parcel shelf seems like a pretty good solution, but it doesn't look the best.

I think the idea of speaker cloth is a good idea, maybe something can be fabricated to resemble the part of the rear shelf that sits against the window and attaches to the car (similar to a boot cover in subaru wagons). The cloth would be attached to the rear part and maybe a fabricated part for the front of the shelf or just tucked in behind the seat.

Just an idea, I'm sure you will get some more soon.

Spotted KEN-33F today on Centenary drive at the M4 lights heading south bound around 12.30pm.

I was gonna honk my horn, then realised I would have looked like a tool in an Astra waving.

I will try to make sure I'm in the TRD next time.

I get REALLY angry at all the "F*** off we're full" ****ers, most of the time I abuse them for being redneck douche's than seeing it as a sense of national pride. As has been said, as soon as it's used as a sign of aggression, then they are no better than all the people of Middle Eastern descent involved in the Cronulla riots.

Sort of motto I go by would be closer to "Australia; Love it or get the f*** out". This applies to anybody of any origin, I don't care if you're white, brown, yellow, or purple - if you don't love our country and everything that entails, then I don't want you living here.

+1. I agree with the F*** of statement. I also had a sticker saying "Love it or Leave it" and people were offended by that! I guess these were the ones that have a problem with living in this country. I also had this sticker on before the Cronulla situation, and thought to myself 'I'd better take this off' (as I lived in Canterbury area at the time) only to find out someone had already started the process for me. I am glad they only did the sticker and not the car.

Oh Yeah, I am a Kiwi so I am happy to stick up for the Country that has provided a good life for me and my family and will continue to show support for the place I call home.

I can see both sides of the argument. Personally, I don't see a problem with displaying the southern cross or flag, and it is up to each Countries discretion as to what laws they enforce. Do you think it is fair that we lose our hand/s for stealing a loaf of bread to feed your starving child? No.

Just so we are straight, I am a New Zealander (Born in N.Z) and have lived here for most of my life. I am one of those people that hang the Aussie flag on Aust. Day and play AC/DC with it aswell. I also keep my heritage with tattoos that are specific to me and the tribe I belong to and am no way doing it to rub peoples faces in it.

However, the government and Aust Flag are there for the people of this country not the other way around. The flag belongs to the citizens and the government are there to provide for its people. So the day you are unable to fly your nations flag with pride (ANZAC day or Aust Day for example) is the day the government has let down its own people.

Sorry if my opinion offends anyone, but if you are not happy in this country then exercise one of the many freedoms you have here and leave to somewhere you will be happier. This is just my opinion.

Kia Kaha is Maori (Native New Zealander)

for Be Strong or Go Hard.

I guess you kinda figured i might be a Kiwi :)

i found that i actually love how turbo sounds more.. whining is just.... not my liking..

Turbo does sound nice, but each to their own really. This is what I want to hear:

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Im glad my s/c doesnt sound like that. I would be getting pretty sick of hearing it all the time in my everyday car. Plus having a quiet s/c makes it more of a sleeper on the road.

Spotted an Orange Corolla with black GT stripes over the hood and roof, topped off with a massive transformers badge on the bonnet.

O.K. Own up, who transformerised their ride?

I wasn't fantasically keen on it at first but it has grown on me :)

I had the opportunity to buy a silver TRD, but paid $600 more for the red because of the interior.

It still looks pretty bloody good.

Here is my contribution. Feel free to use want you want and disregard the rest.

It's a 2nd hand TRD from Toyota. Not owned by anyone before me. Ex Toyota demo / Executives car.

I just went and had another look, pulled the light out and re connected it. Woo hoo, I have light in my boot now. I wonder why it was unplugged?

I was looking in my boot today and noticed a) I don't have a boot light and B) a plug with + and -

Does any one know what this is for? Is it the connection for a boot light?

And here is a closer pic

http://stores.shop.ebay.com.au/ST-GEORGE-T...E__W0QQ_armrsZ1

They ship at reasonable cost too... Only suggestion I have is to get them balanced after you get them, they do a terrible job of that.

and no dealer knows what i mean when i ask can you balance the proper way

e.g balance rim on its own find any heavy spot (if there is), mark spot, add tyre, balance, find heavy spot on tyre and oppose to heavy spot on rim, then balance again and this should mean that you need the min possible weight to be added as hopefully the wheel and tyre oppose each other and balance out.....now i think thats correct...cant remember now lol....gf's dad used to own a tyre shop and do it this way for clients he liked lol

at moment my four rims/ tyres have a range of weights, from one with 75g near outside of rim (not licp on stil stuck on etc), two with a small 15g approx on inside lip of rim and one with 45 grams on outside of rim (stick on)....WTF...it feels balanced but geez seems rediculous i reckon

Lug-Centric

A hub and wheel design in which the wheel is centered by the lug nuts/bolts themselves, often with clearance between the center of the hub and the cut out in the wheel. Toyota wheels are lug-centric and as such require a special lug-centric fixture to be properly balanced on a cone-type balancing machine, as the wheel center hole may not be exactly centered on the lug center point.

Lug-centricity

The alternative to a hub-centric wheel is known as lug-centric.

The wheels are located solely by the lug nuts rather than

the wheel hub.

As the lug nuts are tightened, they adjust the wheel's position relative to the hub, thus centering the wheel.

Properly torqued, the lug nuts continue to keep the wheel centered as the vehicle is driven.

Lug-centric wheels require extra care in mounting on a vehicle. When using shouldered nuts instead of tapered nuts, take extra care to properly locate the wheel. Never use air tools to install high performance wheels! Always use a torque wrench and follow accepted tightening procedures

I took my rims off and on last night and ensured hub rings fitted properly and tightened opposing bolts properly etc...feels better then it did....maybe they werent careful at all in shop...and even with hub ring was a little off ?

I wonder if places have the special lug centric fixture ? ive never noticed them do any different to other makes rims when standing around

That's right mate. Heavy part of wheel should be opposed to heavy side of tyre, then spin again to check balance.

Most dealerships / service dept don't do wheel balance and alignments, the ones that do don't know this method. You are better off going to Bob Jane or Jax and have them do the job. When I was running a Bob Jane we did all the work for dealerships like Ford, Toyota, Merc, Jag, BMW and more.

However, people choose cars for all manner of reasons and many Aurion owner may have wanted a Ralliart but needed a larger car that the Aurion offers.

I was one of these people 2 months ago. I was in the market for a Ralliart (The two Evo's are too $$$) but did not get one for several reasons eg. boot space, price, dealer was a d!ck. So I ended up with a TRD because it was a good price had the things I needed and wanted, but is also missing some things the Ralliart was offering.

So in the end, take the Ralliart for a test drive and make your OWN decision. Getting onto a Toyota forum and asking this question you will get a bias opinion. Go onto a Mitsubishi forum and you will get more bias opinions. Make a list of what YOU need in a car and what you want in a car, and then start making your comparisons.

Good luck.

I don't expect you to add NZ in to your survey because, well, this is a OZ website, but I am an Aussie with an SX6 in NZ so here's my unofficial vote for the non-state state :-)

NZ

SX6

That's ok, I'm a kiwi with a TRD Aurion in Sydney. So that will balance the votes out. :D